Anonymous Strikes First In War With Donald Trump

Trending News: Anonymous Just Hacked Donald Trump!

Why Is This Important?

Because Anonymous isn't messing around.

Long Story Short

Earlier this week Anonymous declared total war on Donald Trump.

Long Story

Just this Monday, the "hacktivist" group known as Anonymous declared cyber war on Donald Trump, citing his extreme, Hitler-like policy positions. If anyone was hoping it was a bluff, here's some bad news: It's happening. They've released Trump's phone number, social security number and other private (albeit mostly known) information. They posted a YouTube video explaining their actions:

"The time has come for a movement morally strong enough to do battle against the forces of evil, bigotry and fascism that have come to the forefront of this election cycle in the United States of America," the narrator says. "Morality dictates a movement of those who can neither be bought nor sold, who will not compromise in defense of the innocent."

And move they have. Trump's PII to Pastebin and Ghostbin, file repository sites where text can be stored for a set amount of time. I'm not linking to them here, but the links are in the description of the YouTube video.

"Now is the time to unite to fight fascism to show that we are very serious to stop any proposed Fourth Reich by the fascist Donald Trump," the narrator says. "We have attached a gift of sorts ... that might be able to insist you all in independently investigating this would-be dictator. These are provided for informational purposes only."

Sure, "informational purposes only." While Trump has plenty of detestable qualities as both a person and a political figure, it's hard to rationalize getting behind rampant violations of privacy like this — if you accept that The Fappening was morally wrong, then so is this.

There's only one way to stop Trump (barring any complications arising from his pending lawsuits and IRS audits): Vote against him. Stunts like this, outrageous as they may be, won't do anything to derail the Teflon Donald's Whitehouse aspirations.

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Ask The Big Question: Are Anonymous heroes, or vigilantes?

Disrupt Your Feed: Trump sucks, but this is too much.

Drop This Fact: Anonymous admits that the majority of its membership (anyone can join) have little to no real hacking skills.